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Untold Stories

admin — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:55:42 +0000

A quite extraordinary animation from Kirklees.

Teenagers draw on animation film to highlight plight of child soldiers
Books Not Bullets is the brainchild of a group of Kirklees youngsters after they heard firsthand tales of genocide survivors.

Beverley Addy – Guardian 01/03/2011

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Aardman animation

Mr Ball — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:52:28 +0000

Tate and Aardman tap children’s ideas for Wallace & Gromit-style movie
Tate teams up with Nick Park’s Aardman to give children chance to create characters, stories and drawings for animated film

Charlotte Higgins – Guardian 19/10/2009

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A class of ipod touches

Mr Ball — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:12:08 +0000

Oh Lord won’t you buy me a school load of ipod touches. ( With apologies to Janis)

What happens when you give a class of 8 year old children an iPod touch each?

from Learn for Life

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Ideas to Inspire

admin — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:35:51 +0000

I have mentioned this site before but it’s getting even better.

In particular use of You Tube in the classroom

They have a RSS feed too to keep you up to date. See here One of a number of Primary related Blogs.

There is also a link to downloading and converting You Tube videos to use them at school.
Link here from elearnr to help with this.

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ICT comes of age.

Mr Ball — Wed, 13 May 2009 09:38:57 +0000

ICT – An essential for learning and life.

An apple
A pencil
A ruler
A whiteboard/slate
A calculator
A computer
A satchel

Where cometh all the computers from?

ICT capability
Focus: Children use and apply their ICT knowledge, skills and understanding confidently and competently in their learning and in everyday contexts. They become
independent and discerning users of technology, recognising opportunities and risks and using strategies to stay safe.
Children learn how to:
1. find and select information from digital and online sources, making judgements about accuracy and reliability
2. create, manipulate and process information using technology to capture and organise data, in order to investigate patterns and trends; explore options using
models and simulations; and combine still and moving images, sounds and text to create multimedia products
3. collaborate, communicate and share information using connectivity to work with, and present to, people and audiences within and beyond the school
4. refine and improve their work, making full use of the nature and pliability of digital information to explore options and improve outcomes.

ICT Capability for “Essentials fo Learning and Life”

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VLE’s as a ‘social learning space’

Mr Ball — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:37:06 +0000

“A lesson or idea I would like to share or take away from this is how a VLE even for the youngest of students need not be a web based flash drive or delivery platform. A way of transferring, accessing, storing or sharing work that teachers make for children and colleagues to use at school. If I am honest this is one of my biggest fears and concerns about how these spaces are often portrayed within the literature we receive or in the conversations we have with colleagues. There is a danger also of seeing these environments as places where traditional homework types and tasks can be uploaded in a digital format in the assumption that this somehow makes them more appealing. I would like to see our space increasingly seen as a shared space where we all have ownership, and a sense of belonging. VLEs like classrooms and schools need to be considered social learning spaces extensions and mediators for informal as well as formal learning experiences.”

Simon Mills – ‘I stand corrected.’

From ICT Inspirations

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Sir Jim’s Leeks

Mr Ball — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:06:36 +0000

Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary schools shake-up
• New curriculum will give teachers more freedom
• Second world war and Victoria not compulsory

Polly Curtis – Guardian 25/03/09

Study Twitter? Study Blogs? They are just tools to engage and stimulate. For many they are already, just an every day, common place thing.
I wonder sometimes if the people writing the headlines have any idea?

“The proposed curriculum, which would mark the biggest change to primary schooling in a decade, strips away hundreds of specifications about the scientific, geographical and historical knowledge pupils must accumulate before they are 11 to allow schools greater flexibility in what they teach.”

You can just hear the scrape of old soapboxes as they are pulled out of cupboards in response to this idea.

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Digital Starters

Mr Ball — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:12:44 +0000

A brilliant post from Simon Mills about using Wallace & Gromit videos as digital starters for explaining processes.

The Tellyscope

The Snoozatron

There is an ongoing list of ‘Digital Starters’ or Multimodal Starting Points which can be found on our school site – E-Learning – English – Film

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Becta show benefits of Web2.0 in the classroom

Mr Ball — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:44:28 +0000

A summary of the report here

Key elements so far are
- encourage student engagement
- encourage online discussion
- extend their learning
- sense of ownership

The report into the use of Web2.0 technologies at KS3 and KS4 to be found here.

This report is for KS3 and KS4 but looking at the work at Sandaig and Tom Barret’s Blog then use of these tools in Primary Schools should be high on agendas perhaps.

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Scratch Resources

Mr Ball — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:27:16 +0000

This came up in Simon Mill’s (ICT Inspirations Blog) del.icio.us.

We have one or two pages here that explain Scratch.

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PrimaryOdds'n'Ends » DiscerningICT

Untold Stories

A quite extraordinary animation from Kirklees.

Teenagers draw on animation film to highlight plight of child soldiers Books Not Bullets is the brainchild of a group of Kirklees youngsters after they heard firsthand tales of genocide survivors.

Aardman animation

A class of ipod touches

What happens when you give a class of 8 year old children an iPod touch each?

Ideas to Inspire

ICT comes of age.

VLE’s as a ‘social learning space’

Sir Jim’s Leeks

Digital Starters

Becta show benefits of Web2.0 in the classroom

Scratch Resources

Teenagers draw on animation film to highlight plight of child soldiers
Books Not Bullets is the brainchild of a group of Kirklees youngsters after they heard firsthand tales of genocide survivors.